Yin Ziqi's face remained unchanged, but his eyes flashed with cold glint from time to time, he knew his situation very well, everyone else in the big tent could withdraw, but he couldn't withdraw, thinking that he had the most troops, nearly 300,000 people, so many people only had two days of food and grass, how to withdraw? I'm afraid that before the retreat to Xuchang and Suiyang, they will all be scattered because of the lack of grain and grass, and the other generals don't have many troops, as long as they can get some grain by plundering a county and a city along the way, until they find a place to stay, and he can't, the grain and grass needed for 300,000 horses is not a small amount, even if you plunder all the counties, the grain you get can't eat for a day!

Yin Ziqi thought for a long time, stood up and said to everyone: "Let's do it, you guys think about it again, you must be able to come up with a proper way, I will go to the toilet first, and when I come back, we will continue to discuss, we must discuss a way today!" ”

The crowd did not doubt him, and when he was gone, they began to talk about him again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After Yin Ziqi left the big tent, he immediately brought several henchmen Li Huaixian, Yang Zongwang and Ling Huchao and others to him, and said: "The news of Luoyang City's surrender to Li Tang, you must have heard it, and now An Taiqing, Niu Tingjie, Tian Qianzhen and some other generals think that this battle cannot be fought, and they want to withdraw to Xuchang, Suiyang and Bianzhou to rest, they can withdraw, because they don't have many soldiers in their hands, and they can solve the problem of grain and grass by plundering the past along the way, but we are different, we have nearly 300,000 people, We don't have enough grain and grass to support us to lead the army back to Xuchang and Suiyang, and the army will be scattered on the road because of the lack of food and grass, so we can't withdraw! ”

Yin Ziqi's prestige in the hearts of his generals is still very high, and all the generals nodded one after another, thinking that Yin Ziqi was thoughtful, Li Huaixian hugged his fists and asked: "Dashuai, what should we do if you and I say?" Whatever the big man says, we will do! ”

Several other people also chimed in: "Yes, let's follow Dashuai!" ”

Yin Ziqi's face was gloomy, his eyes were murderous, and he said coldly: "An Taiqing, Niu Tingjie, Tian Qianzhen and other people are not enough to work with, these people are not enough to succeed and more than to lose!" Instead of letting them take away their troops and weaken our forces, it is better to kill them all and collect their men! Then our troops are divided into two routes, one route is for me to take the men and horses of my headquarters to attack Hangu Pass according to the original plan, and the other route is Li Huaixian, you take the men and horses who have incorporated them to attack Luoyang, as long as we succeed all the way, we can solve the food problem, and we can also send a team of men and horses to collect all the nearby counties and counties, and it should not be a big problem to find the grain and grass that supports the army for ten days and half a month! ”

After hearing this, the generals all began to think about it, and after careful thinking, these people all felt that only Yin Qizhi had the best way to gather soldiers and horses, not to weaken their strength, and to solve the food problem, so everyone agreed.

It's just that Ling Huchao asked: "Dashuai, how can these people say that they are also generals, if we kill them today, and the court will investigate them in the future, how will we explain?" ”

Li Huaixian sneered: "Hey, An Qingxu is too much to protect himself, where can he still have the energy to care about us?" In these years, you can only speak if you have soldiers in your hands, and if you don't have soldiers in your hands, you can talk like a fart! ”

Ling Huchao nodded when he heard this: "Okay, that's it!" ”

Yin Ziqi saw that everyone's opinion was unified, and immediately said to Li Huaixian and the others: "Okay, in that case, you wait for the hurry to prepare a team of elite armor soldiers to quietly arrive outside the big tent, and with me smashing the cup as an order, you will rush into the big tent and kill An Taiqing, Niu Tingjie and Tian Qianzhen!" ”

Li Huaixian and the others immediately clasped their fists and agreed: "Obey the order!" ”

Everyone dispersed and acted separately, and Yin Ziqi quickly returned to the big tent and continued to discuss with An Taiqing and others.

The crowd argued in the tent for a while, some people said that they would take a detour from the south to the Xuchang area, some people said that they would go to the north to make a detour to Xingyang, and some people said that they simply divided all the grain, and each took his own men and horses to act separately.

Yin Ziqi was furious when he heard this, and he didn't bother to talk to these people, so he took the wine cup and drank it all, and immediately threw the wine cup on the ground.

There was a "bump" sound.

Immediately afterwards, Li Huaixian, Yang Zongwang, Ling Huchao and others rushed into the big tent with a group of sharp armor soldiers in hand, and cut people when they saw them, An Taiqing blocked Li Huaixian's slash, and said in shock: "What do you want to do?" Yin Ziqi, this is your person, what do you want to do? ”

Yin Ziqi sneered: "What are you doing? You cowardly villains, you can only drag your feet if you are left behind, instead of letting you withdraw with your men and horses to weaken the strength of our army, it is better for me to kill you, collect all your men and horses, and then fight to the death with the Tang army! Do it, kill me, don't leave a single one! ”

Yin Ziqi was numerous, An Taiqing and others were killed, and they were quickly cut to the ground one by one, and the entire big tent was full of corpses and severed limbs, and blood was splashed everywhere on the entire big tent tent.

After killing An Taiqing, Tian Qianzhen, Niu Tingjie and others, Yin Ziqi immediately ordered: "Li Huaixian, you each bring a group of people to quickly kill several of their cronies and soldiers, you must cut down the grass and eradicate the roots!" Then they will collect the soldiers and horses under their command, and if there is resistance, they will all be killed! ”

"Command!" The three of them clenched their weapons and said a word, and then rushed away.

In only a short period of time, the cronies and soldiers of An Taiqing, Niu Tingjie and Tian Qianzhen were cleaned up by Yin Ziqi, and the army under their command was also absorbed.

That night, Yin Ziqi summoned Li Huaixian and other henchmen to discuss the action.

Yin Ziqi said to everyone: "We don't have much food and grass, and tomorrow we will divide the troops into three routes, one route is for me to lead the headquarters to attack Hangu Pass, and let the fox tide follow me; The second route is Li Huaixian with his own headquarters and a total of 100,000 people and horses recruited today to attack Luoyang City, I only give you two days of grain and grass, you must take Luoyang City within two days! On the third road, Yang Zongwang led 20,000 people to the surrounding military salaries and looted, and he could grab as much grain as he could, and quickly transported it back when he grabbed it, do you understand? ”

Everyone clasped their fists and said, "Understood!" ”

"Okay, you guys go back and rest early, make dinner tomorrow, and lead the troops to set off at midnight!"

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Hangu Pass, Tang Army Marshal camp.

Zhao Ziliang was dressed in thick armor, a red-tasseled steel helmet on his head, a big red cloak on his shoulders, and a waist knife on the wall of Hangu Pass, observing the rebel camp fifteen miles away.

Wang Can rode a fast horse from the direction of the marshal's camp, hurriedly climbed the city wall, and walked quickly to Zhao Ziliang's side and whispered: "Dashuai, the matter of Luoyang City has been completed, and now Gao Shang has taken the officials and generals of Luoyang City and 20,000 troops to announce the surrender of my Datang, and the city head hangs the banner of my Datang, confining the city gate, cutting off the supply of food and grass for the 400,000 rebel army, and we sneaked into the rebels' detailed work to wear the news, Yin Ziqi launched a mutiny in the military camp, killed An Taiqing, Tian Qianzhen and Niu Tingjie and others to collect their men and horses, He decided to divide the army into three ways to start an operation tomorrow, one route was Yin Ziqi led the main force of the rebel army to attack our Hangu Pass, the second route was to attack Luoyang with 100,000 horses and horses collected by Li Huaixian, and the other route was Yang Zongwang to lead 20,000 people to loot the surrounding counties and counties to raise grain and grass! ”

Zhao Ziliang touched his stubble after listening to Wang Can's report, and sneered: "It seems that Yin Ziqi understands his situation very well, he knows that he has too many troops and is unlikely to withdraw to a safe place, but the others want to withdraw, Yin Ziqi simply killed several other people without doing anything, and incorporated their men and horses, so that the 400,000 army is his own decision, and he concentrates his forces on the one hand to confront me, and on the other hand, he actively raises food and grass, hoping to survive this difficult period, On our side, I'm not worried that he will be able to break through Hangu Pass in a day or two, but I'm worried that Li Huaixian's troops will break through Luoyang, and now Luoyang has just surrendered, and the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city are still unstable, and they can't withstand the onslaught of the army! Come on, summon the generals in the army to the marshal's camp to discuss matters! ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Soon, the envoys and deputy envoys of various armies rushed to the marshal's camp in the darkness of night.

The marshal's tent was brightly lit, and the oil lamps were crackling.

When everyone arrived, Zhao Ziliang asked Wang Can to give a brief report on the military situation.

When Wang Can finished introducing the military situation, Zhao Ziliang said: "This is the situation, Luoyang can no longer fall into the hands of the rebels, nor can Yang Zongwang wantonly plunder the surrounding counties, this Luoyang City and the surrounding counties have been war-torn for a long time in recent years, and the people are miserable, so we can't defend passively, we can only take the initiative to attack, defeat the main force of the rebel Yin Ziqi in one fell swoop, and then take the power of victory to conquer Li Huaixian and Yang Zongwang, the action must be fast, do not give them the opportunity to harm the people and Luoyang City, and leave 10,000 infantry to guard Guguan tomorrow, The other 100,000 horses went out to meet the enemy, lit a fire to make food at the end of the day, and went out of the pass to attack the enemy army at the hour of the hour, do you have the confidence to defeat the 300,000 horses of the rebels? ”

The generals roared: "Yes! ”

Zhao Ziliang said calmly: "The voice is not loud enough, and the confidence does not seem to be enough!" ”

The generals shouted again: "Yes! ”

In the eighteenth year of Tianbao, February 14.

When the morning dawn appeared in the sky, the Tang army and the Yan army began to make fires to make rice, and after breakfast, their whole army set off, in front of the Hangu Pass is a large open space, the Tang army immediately after the pass in the open space in front of the pass to set up a formation, front and back, left and right according to the name of the formation, and the rangers, heavy cavalry and archers and the marshal's escort army are all under the command of Zhao Ziliang alone, and the Chinese army is placed together, ready to be sent into battle at any time.

When Yin Ziqi set off to Hangu Pass with a large group of men, the front sentry came to report that the Tang Army's 100,000 troops came out of the pass to meet the battle, Yin Ziqi said secretly in his heart: "Okay, let Yin come to meet you, a famous general who shocks the world, and see what you have to defeat my 300,000 army!" (To be continued.) )